A pedagogue's authorial feat

The most eye-catching feature of all textual feats by Associate Professor Sarwar Morshed is his amazing dexterity to exercise...
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Tale of humour and pathos ...

The novel has all the hallmarks of Vargas Llosa's unique skills. To connect with the reader with his easy-flowing style; his ability to detail the lives of ordinary people.
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Whose blame is it anyway?

The three-part novel begins in 1965 when Laila is still a teenager who is attracted to her poor Hindu neighbor Santo.
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Bangla books for Manhattan Bangla-Cultural School

Bangladesh Consul General Md Shameem Ahsan donated sets of Bangla books (class I to V) to Manhattan Bangla-
3 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Fair offering e-books too

Aiming to promote Bangla literature and reach it to more people, many organisations at Amar Ekushey Granthamela
3 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Inspiring storytellers to join Daily Star's silver jubilee gala

During 25 years of its journey, The Daily Star has unfolded inspiring stories and taken numerous initiatives to make a difference. In alignment with this spirit, The Daily Star arranged an online campaign marking 25 years of Journalism without fear and favour where online readers were urged to submit their inspiring stories.
3 February 2016, 17:23 PM

Young readers find trove at book fair

Fairy tales, ghost stories, myths and comics strips feature invariably highly on the priority list of young readers, and it was evident at
2 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Happy birthday Hasan Azizul Huq

Eminent short story writer of Bangla literature Hasan Azizul Huq turns 77.
2 February 2016, 08:52 AM

This year's book fair much larger

Book sellers are hopeful of seeing bigger crowds and good sales as the month long book fair Amar Ekushey Granthamela opened on larger premises this year, facilitating public movement.
1 February 2016, 18:00 PM

6 novels by Farzana Mitu published

The publication ceremony of six novels by Farzana Mitu was held at the Public Library in the capital on Saturday, said a press release
31 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Book titled 'Dhaka - An Urban Reader' unveiled at NSU

North South University (NSU) department of architecture on Thursday launched a book titled, "Dhaka – An Urban
30 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Sounds of the night

The night was still, sacred and dark
29 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Upon Ruining the Rickshaw Economy in Uttara

Every day unbundles pain for this stranger in his cycle of despair.
29 January 2016, 18:00 PM

TWINKLE

She cruised through her grades with tremendous ease and ended up giving the school finals a year earlier than her peers. She was fifteen then.
29 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Remembering Virginia Woolf with her best novels

One of the foremost modernists of the Twentieth century, Virginia Woolf gained fame for her nonlinear, free prose style which not only inspired her peers but also earned her accolade. Yesterday was her 134th birth anniversary and to commemorate the day we have put together a list of the writer’s most iconic works.
26 January 2016, 10:20 AM

A wistful sense of nostalgia

Neeman Sobhan'sbook of short stories “Piazza Bangladesh” is a collection of eleven short stories, richly layered and delicately nuanced, that convey an amazing diversity of insights into different spaces, both actual and of the mind.
24 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Tale of two ghazal kings

It was memory-evoking undertaking for this reviewer to go through the two books written on two maestros of ghazals who belonged to two different times. The first book is titled "Talat Mahmood: The Velvet Voice" authored by Manek Premchand and the other is "Baat Niklegi Toh Phir: The Life and Music of Jagjit Singh" by Sathya Saran. The first book has been published by Manipal University Press and the second one by HarperCollins Publishers India.
24 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Refashioning of the Revenge Mode

My copy of the novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif was published by Random House India from London in 2009. It's a paperback edition consisting of 364 pages, and the yellow cover shows the image of a black crow, not mangoes, being exploded. It's Hanif's debut novel and it received rave reviews from major international newspapers such as the NY Times, Washington Post and the Guardian.
24 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Recycling Shakespeare

Hogarth Press has commissioned a series of 'retellings' of Shakespeare plays. First to appear is Jeanette Winterson's take on The Winter's Tale.
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM

DISTILLED, DELICATE, DEFINITIVE: SUDEEP SEN'S OEUVRE

Fractals is an encounter with a design paradigm, a certain matryoshka revelation of dolls-within-dolls.
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM